(Those are our paraphrases. But they're what we took away from Yahoo's patents.)

But if Yahoo has a chance of extorting money out of Facebook because it owns ridiculously vague patents like those, then AOL probably has a chance of extorting some money, too.

But companies, understandably, don't like to be extorted. And the public doesn't like extortionists. And it's obvious to everyone who so much as glances at Yahoo's Facebook lawsuit that, if Yahoo is actually able to get money for this, that Yahoo is being an extortionist and the patent system is completely broken.

So most people who have heard of Yahoo's lawsuit think that the lawsuit and Yahoo are pathetic.